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An Arizona man became the first in the state to survive coronavirus with a rare blood treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy (ECMO), The Arizona Republic reported Tuesday. Enes Dedic, 53, is among the first U.S. COVID-19 patients to survive with ECMO therapy and about one of 10 patients to survive the therapy worldwide. ECMO was…

It’s 9:30 in the morning and Ina Garten is emptying a bottle of Grey Goose into a giant cocktail pitcher. “Just what everybody needs, right?” she asks her audience on Instagram, where she has posted a video of herself preparing a Cosmopolitan for breakfast. In any normal circumstance, a beloved septuagenarian food icon encouraging viewers…

When Lex Frieden broke his hip, a Texas hospital decided against an operation. Frieden, a quadriplegic since 1967, would never walk, so the surgery wasn't necessary, the doctors reasoned, a decision that left him with lasting pain. Mack Taylor / Houston METRO hide caption toggle caption Mack Taylor / Houston METRO When Lex Frieden broke…

Both providers are now testing patients for coronavirus antibodies and say expansion is coming fast. MINNEAPOLIS — Of all the coronavirus numbers available on Minnesota's online dashboard, Governor Walz says testing is the most important to restarting our economy. "Instead of doing several hundred or a thousand a day, we start building up that capacity…

The prevalence of these effects is too great to attribute them solely to the “cytokine storm,” a powerful immune-system response that attacks the body, causing severe damage, doctors and researchers said.Almost half the people hospitalized because of covid-19 have blood or protein in their urine, indicating early damage to their kidneys, said Alan Kliger, a…